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Welcome to ALARA's regular e-News of activities, events and information
for the Action Learning / Action Research Community.
Your contributions to this fortnightly bulletin are welcome. Please send any items to secretary@alarassociation.org
In this e-News:
- A great CARN-ALARA Conference held in Split
- Secretary assistance required
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CARN-ALARA Conference, Split, Croatia
The CARN-ALARA 2019 conference has been held in Split on 17-19 October, 2019.
The conference was a huge success with 164 registrations from practitioners from 30 countries - a very international event indeed. The conference kicked off with a session led by Ruth Balogh from CARN, Colin Bradley from ALARA and Joe Shosh from ARNA encouraging input from participants about the future of AR Networks - and many of those participants provided a range of views.
Participants attended about 100 sessions over the very full two days, with many new friendships established, and many participants re-uniting with old colleagues.
The Zoom meeting, unfortunately, was not so successful - the internet connection dropped out halfway through the meeting and was only regained right at the very end.
An important side-event occurred during the conference with representatives from several Editorial Boards of Action Research journals meeting to discuss greater collaboraton and connections.
While CARN, ALARA and ARNA are holding separate events next year, the potential for future collaborations in subsequent years is high.
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Brisbane ALARA Conversation
The next event will be the Christmas party - more details to come.
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Publications
Members can access the Action Learning and Action Research Journal via the OJS website. Both the Journal and Monographs are available on the ALARA website.
The latest Monograph is by Eileen Piggot-Irvine, Wendy Rowe and Lesley Ferkins,entitled Thumbs Up for Action Research in Case Studies from the Evaluation Study of Action Research. It is available for ALARA Members on the Monographs page.
ALARA is seeking a print-on-demand service provider to replace Sydney University Press. Any suggestions or assistance in this pursuit would be welcomed - please contact Colin Bradley. Once ALARA has signed with a new provider, these publications will be available in hard copy.
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Secretary Assistance Requested
Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd is seeking assistance in two roles, which could be performed by one or two people. These roles are Minute Secretary and Administration Support Secretary.
- Minute Secretary: The Minute Secretary may attend meetings of the Board (usually 11 per year), and does attend meetings of the Committees Group (between 6 and 10 per year) and the Annual General Meeting.
- Administration Support Secretary: The Administration Support Secretary supports the Board on all matters related to the general administration of ALARA.
Each role requires between about 2 and 10 hours per month. A full description of the work is available here. ALARA will consider applicants in a volunteer or paid capacity.
ALARA also have a number of important initiatives for which we are seeking assistance, such as developing a marketing plan, helping to create local networks or conversation events in any location where members wish to meet, approaching organisations that utilise Action Learning / Action Research that may wish to support ALARA and its activities, and developing relationships with organisations that will provide benefits to members and the wider Action Learning / Action Research community.
A description of the initiatives is available here. If you would like to discuss these roles or initiatives, or would like to undertake one or more of them, please contact ALARA (secretary@alarassociation.org or president@alarassociation.org).
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Call for papers for Action Learning and Action Research Journal
ALARA has published the Action Learning and Action Research Journal for 24 years, and you are invited to submit papers for the 2019 issues. Please visit the ALARj on the OJS site or see the submission guidelines on ALARA's website for more information.
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ALARA Monograph available
As well as the ALARA 7th Monograph, mentioned above, ALARA has published the 6th Monograph in its series: Beyond the boundary: Is there Something Called 'Real Knowledge'? by Davies, Shamshoum, Nyland and Clarke. The full Monograph is available via the Monograph's page.
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Other Events and Information
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PRIA Youth Newsletter
PRIA has released an online Youth Newsletter. Issue 1 (September 2019) is available here.
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Cocinando! Cooking with Action Research
Hilary Bradbury and AR+ released a new recipe book on Action Research. For more information about the cookbook, see here.
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PRIA Releases Annual Report
PRIA has shared its latest Annual Report. Highlights include nine Knowledge for Change (K4C) Hubs established and 52 mentors trained on community based participatory research, and Settlement Improvement Committee members (53% are women and 50% are youth members) are mature and confident, capable of making municipal authorities accountable. To download a copy, click here.
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WERA Focal Meeting Call for Submissions
Please click here for the Call for Submissions for the World Education Research Association (WERA) Focal Meeting to be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain from 1 to 3 July 2020. WERA is an association of major national, regional, and specialty education research associations dedicated to sharing scholarship, developing networks, and mutually supporting capacity building.
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International Action Learning Conference 2020 - Action Learning and Social Action
The Call for submissions for the conference, which will be held in Plymouth UK on 6-8 April 2020 has opened, closing this week - 30 October 2019. Click here to download a brochure, or for more information visit here.
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Call for the Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) 2020 Conference
The Call for the Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) 2020 Conference is now open at their website. This conference takes place from 21th to 24th April 2020 in Copenhagen (DK). More information is available here.
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ALARA Member Seeking Assignment
Bryan Carpenter, MA, CFIPD (UK), is an Associate Fellow of ALARA. As a previous action research university head of faculty, he has extensive international experience of teaching action research and facilitating action learning sets. He is based in Thailand and is actively looking for short term assignments in Australia (or remote). If interested please email direct to bryan.carpenter7[at]gmail.com for detailed information
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Special Issue of EARJ, entitled “Critical issues in socially just action research and practice”
Find out more about this special issue here.
The editors would be very grateful if authors could let them know as early as possible if they will be submitting an abstract, as this will help the editors' planning.
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Special Issue of Action Learning: Research & Practice: Action Learning & Social Action
Submissions are invited for a Special Issue of Action Learning: Research & Practice to be published in Spring 2020. See here for more information.
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Open Access Government July 2019
Open Access Government July 2019 showcases a wide array of insightful opinion articles on government policy issues across the globe, including health and social care, research and innovation, environment, agriculture, energy, transport, industry, ICT, blockchain innovation, government, legal affairs and HR & training. Out now and free to view.
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